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by blululu 4y ago
That would make sense. There are probably a lot of reasons for this trend. The OP's point about fixating on US News ranking seems related to your suggestion. Whatever the cause may be it seems clear to me that a lot of our best scienti
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by blululu 4y ago
I’m not sure why this is getting downvoted. Every time I read through a scientific journal from the 60’s or 70’s I am pleasantly surprised by the fact that the qualitative and quantitative reasoning is clearer and more sophisticated than wh
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by blululu 4y ago
If you think about it a capacitive touch sensor provides a noisy Grayscale image and the goal is to detect and classify blobs as touch gestures as quickly and accurately as possible. Since it is running at all times and latency really burns
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by blululu 4y ago
No but the first party users should not consume all the compute on the chip. The bigger the margin the better for the device. The other aspect of this is speed and power consumption (battery life is a top 3 phone feature across pretty much
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by blululu 4y ago
It’s not a subsidy. It’s a pricing structure for a commercial transaction. Fundamentally a business can not just give out free compute. In the long run the user of computation needs to pay for it. It’s a question of whether people feel more
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by blululu 4y ago
To my knowledge this is mostly used by internal tools, though a number of common 3rd party apis (qr code scan) use hw acceleration under the hood. Internally there is a ton of ML running on the device. The most obvious is touch screen and i
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by blululu 4y ago
No. Those laws were made to curtail drunkenness and the numerous social woes that come with it. Same reason we passed total prohibition. Those religious minorities were negligible in the times and places where they passed blue laws and the
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by blululu 4y ago
No-one said anything about space, time or objectivity. Those are all weird, but external reality is something we know just as well as we know internal reality. (Internalist conceptions of mind don't pan out). Saying mind and thinking
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by blululu 4y ago
This was a dead-end in the history of Western thought. We started an irrelevant definition of knowledge (Cartesian Rationalism where geometry is the paragon of knowing) and arrived at equally irrelevant conclusions about metaphysics (Cartes
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by blululu 4y ago
Maybe, but I would avoid throwing around quantum mechanics here. The nervous system is generally not a quantum system (it is big), and while there is a ton of chaotic fluid stuff going on (it's all ions), everything we know about nervo
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by blululu 4y ago
This is an argument for agnosticism. All else being equal it would be just as presumptuous to postulate the existence or non-existence of an entity. But I think that the arc of history would suggest that all things are not equal. We do af
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by blululu 4y ago
A little bit of knowledge can be less than useless. It gives the impression of understanding while passing over the harsher realities. The way that such a move is enacted matters. Is this shift scheduled on a random Saturday/Sunday wi
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by blululu 4y ago
*state of the art running in tensorflow.js in realtime. There are limits to what you can do in the browser under 50ms for mid range laptops.
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by blululu 4y ago
They tried accepting blockchain donations, but were given a lot of public ridicule for the idea: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/6/22870787/mozilla-pauses-cr...
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by blululu 4y ago
This is a great idea for a challenge. I generally like to burn an hour or two on a cross country flight making a simple computer simulation. Some good ones include: a triple pendulum, tidal forces, 3 body problem, sand piles, traffic jams.
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by blululu 4y ago
They probably tried to do that but without a complete understanding of who does what exactly. Imagine a clueless manager lists out who on their team does what. Imagine the clueless manager got canned and now someone one or two steps removed
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by blululu 4y ago
15 years is a long time when college tuitions rise by ~10% a year. 6 figure debt is more common than you would like. As for the connection between wealth and university, I would suggest looking at the stats on income and education. You can
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by blululu 4y ago
15B profit on 420B investment amounts 3.5% return YoY. I wouldn't brag about that sort of return. Yes TARP worked to forestall an even greater collapse. People were less upset that the government acted as an emergency creditor than by
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by blululu 4y ago
FWIW, one of the stranger results of legalization is the number of 60+ conservatives who just get mega-stoned on the reg.
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by blululu 4y ago
For one thing, people are really lazy (especially when they smoke a lot of weed). For another enforcement is kind of pricey. I am aware of people who had federal helicopters land on their property to machine gun down their grow operations.
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by blululu 4y ago
Being a durable store of value is generally part of the definition of cash along with liquidity and fungibility. Governments put so much effort into making banking deposits function as cash because the modern banking system would break dow
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by blululu 4y ago
Except among left wing circles where tech has become synonymous with fascist. Most of the people I've seen calling for depositors to lose everything are leftwing of the woke variety. Of course both right and left seem to ignore that ba
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by blululu 4y ago
There is plenty of water in California. No-one is going to die of thirst so it doesn't make sense to frame the issue in such dire terms. The cost of desalinated water in California exceeds the market rate, so nobody in the state wants
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by blululu 4y ago
Or just cutting the government subsidies on beef and cotton production on lands that use discounted reclamation water.
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Desalination is energy intensive and expensive. It would make sense in urban contexts and not for agriculture. This sets up a political fight since the majority of the state’s water usage derives from people who already rely on government h
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by blululu 4y ago
Other way around. That New York Times infographic is just pernicious misinformation. Almonds are grown and sold internationally at a profit. It is an expensive crop that requires a unique climate. Cows take 10x the water per pound, sell for
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by blululu 4y ago
It’s an SEO play. Wordier articles are ranked higher. The best example is cooking recipes which are among the most finely tuned seo. They all start with a paragraph about their old family recipe.
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by blululu 4y ago
Don’t have any horses in this race, but this feels like a straw man. Getting told to go die by a centralized exchange is exactly the kind of problem that crypto solves. The trouble is a ton of web3 startups (like coinbase) worked to undo th
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Year Old Timelapse of Flowers Blooming(youtube.com)
3 points by blululu 4y ago|1 comments
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by blululu 4y ago
F. Percy Smith's original Timelapse of blooming flowers

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